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Grid/server capacity: 28

Practice: ~19:20 (60 mins)
Qualifying: 20:20 (20 mins)
Race: 20:40 (38 laps)

Track: Early Brands Hatch GP Circuit Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg81636#post_earlybrands)

Cars allowed: Alfa Romeo Tipo 33-3 Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#post_alfa_tipo_333), Ferrari 312P Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#post_ferrari312p), Ferrari 512S Code Lunga Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#post_ferrari512s), Lola T70 Mk3B/C Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#post_lolat70), Matra Simca MS650 Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#post_matra_simca), Porsche 908/2 and 908/03 Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#post_porsche908), Porsche 917K Download this (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3358.msg54520#post_porsche917k).

Modern tyre fix must be applied to the relevant cars. Full details here (https://www.simracing.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=12159.msg218178#msg218178)

Car restrictions: Two drives maximum per make *. Check your status here (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AuS59xI7-YTLdGl0aWt3YWM4dkdMZGZhQlFwaTBqcVE&usp=sharing). *Drivers may elect to drop one make entirely and add two bonus drives with one other make.

Time of Day Setting: 14:00
Start: STANDING
Tyre wear: Normal
Fuel consumption: Normal
Pit stops: Not required

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Password: see above (#post_event_password)

Notes:
(1) It's best if all drivers can make sure they are connected before the Qualifying session as drivers on track during qualifying will not see cars that join after they are on track until they go back to the garage.
(2) Please make sure you are fully aware of the SimRacing.org.uk Rules.
(3) The AI control should be turned off so that you have control of the car at all times, including pitting. Your player file should therefore read
Autopit="0"
Force Autopit Off="1" // Forces autopit always off
No AI Control="1" // AI never has control over car
If you still finding pitting problematic, experience tells us that its less to do with positioning and more to do with approach speed. A slow approach to pit crew chief has proved most reliable.

Special Notes: None

Race announcement revised

Porsche 917L removed from series.

Race announcement revised

Rule change regarding No. of drives per make.

Race announcement revised

Message and link for Modern tyre fix added.

Hi Folks won’t be racing here for a few weeks, am going in for an operation to repair a heart valve and close a hole in my heart. I go in Sunday evening for op sometime on Monday 15th Sept 2014, will keep you posted when I can get Wi-Fi access.

Hi Bill .... get well and hope to see you back racing soon.

Best of luck Bill, hope all goes well.

Cheers,
Erling

Thanks Roger and Erling, can't say I'll be thinking of you all racing Monday night as I'll still be deep under anesthetic.  ;) ;D

Will update when I'm able to.

Good luck and get well soon, Bill.
Cheers.
Kurt

Just got back; Server started.

Always the same story between me and Brands Hatch: can't find any kind of rhythm here.
Requires a lot more practicing for me  ::)

CU next week

Good luck Bill

trust that all goes well and you are back racing soon.

Sorry I was away when this news broke. Thinking of you Bill.

Replay and results now posted.

No time to practice for this one and my setup was mostly guess work. Also my pedals needed re-calibrating  ::)

Should be all normal for next weeks race.

Tough race, this one.  Brands Hatch will never be one of my favorites; I'll be hard pressed to think of a corner I hate more than T1 here - don't think I'll ever truly gotten it right, in any car.  Lola demanded full concentration and a rotten egg on the accelerator at all times.

Puzzled by the results table - it shows GT on pole and me on 4th, but if I'm not mistaken, he started from the back, Postal was on pole and I was 3rd  ???

Anyway, slipped into 2nd when Postal spun at T1 on L1.  GT soon made his way through, and he & Clive disappeared.  Managed to stay ahead of the Alfa pack of Roger & Postal for a number of laps, but then Roger fell back a little, allowing Postal to concentrate on me instead.  He was soon through, and I thus dropped to 4th.

Gap to Roger varied, but eventually seemed to stabilize around 6-7 secs.   Surprisingly, Clive then showed up, not too far up ahead.  Wondered if his tyres were off already, and if I might have a shot at passing him.  Soon became apparent though, that he was playing his gap management game once more.  Decided to ignore him and concentrate on Roger behind me instead - better hang on to 4th than screw up trying for a 3rd I wasn't going to get anyway.

However, Mr.Evil seemingly didn't like being ignored, and promptly dropped the gap to under 3 secs. I still didn't take the bait, so he extended the gap a little, but then pretended to spin in a corner. Okay, if he was THAT intent  ;), then maybe I should try and pressure him a little. Just as this was unfolding, GT caught and was about to lap me. Contemplating where I could let him past without losing too much time to Clive, distracted me enough to go off track. That of course let him through - and handed Clive another gap to manage!   The kind track nazis decided I shouldn't be the only one getting nothing from my mistake, and thus handed me a cut track warning  :censored:

Got another warning some laps later, when I ran ever so slightly wide when exiting the hairpin at T2 - apparently you get s-n-g's for losing time on this track..  Thus had to be very careful on the remaining 10 laps or so, so never got truly close to Clive again.  Slid off under braking on the last lap, but thankfully rejoined soon enough to hang on to 4th till the finish.

Grats to the podium.  Thoughts go to Bill though; hope his procedure has gone well, and that he'll soon be back among us.

Cheers,
Erling

Had to put some practise in for this one and a lot of setup work on the Alfa to get it balanced. When I realised I was going to be a bit too quick I put in a quali lap to keep up my stats for the series but then escaped and re-entered to start at the back.

When paddock caught a few out on lap 1 I had a free drive into 4th (I think) and then set about chasing down those in front. Took my time and waited for little errors to get through eventually taking the lead a few laps in. I picked up a very strange cut warning at T2 and had to be particularly careful each time through there. I had found a way of enabling a lap delta in xd which kept me distracted entertained for the rest of the race and managed to keep things neat and tidy to the flag.

Thanks for the racing  8)

To be absolutely honest I was not even expecting to complete this race, and in the last few laps I the Lola did everything it could to make that prophecy come true.

Having spent the weekend at the Goodwood Revival and travelling home on Monday, I was just about overloaded with motor Racing and strangely felt somewhat spent and knackered.
( I don't think the consumption of beer and late nights chatting about everything from simracing to biscuits could have had anything to do with my tiredness  ::) )

I jumped on the server and took the Lola ( only because there were Lolas at Goodwood and it seemed appropriate??) Gradually tamed the beast during practice and qually although I did get confused with the fuel levels, so I just filled the tank to the brim...and hoped it would be enough??!!

Somehow I held Postal outside around Paddock and I hope that it was fair as I felt no contact  :angel: and I stuck it tight into Druids before I checked the mirror . Erling was a little way behind , so I pushed hard to build a gap whilst I had breathing space.
I knew GT would be coming past at some point given the lap times he was posting earlier. I did try to defend for a lap or so, but I was only delaying the inevitable  :-\ and I ran a little wide at paddock on one lap so i just left the door open for him and waved goodbye.
Postal loomed in the mirrors before long and once again mistakes on my part left the door open and by the time he was past my tyres had seen their best laps  :-\
For the last part of the race I was fighting the unpredictable handling and tyre wear issues and each time I ran off track Erling would close and I had to summon enough concentration to put in a quick lap to regain some space. But fatigue from Goodwood and lack of talent meant that I could only do that for 2 laps before it all went wrong again.

I just managed to limit the mistakes and retain 3rd spot. I would not call that managing the gap Erling!! although it might have looked that way to you  ;D

grats to GT and Postal who were way faster than I could compete with and hard luck to Erling who might have nicked 3rd if i had made just one more excursion into the boondocks!!

I think the tyres for the Lola are mixed up. I ran on hards and they went off like softs  ???

Replay checked and qualy positions corrected

Our quarterly subscription is nearly met. Just need a few more gold coins guy's.

There is something strange about them.  Did my initial offline testing on softs, but improved my laptimes when I switched to hards, so used these in the race.  On hards, the fronts lasted longer, but the rears wore faster, strangely.  Also tried mixing them; hard fronts & soft rears, but that made the car completely undriveable - no rear grip at all.


Have you seen GT's explanation ?


I'll toss in a few, but am I wrong in seeming to recall having paid not long ago ?

Cheers,
Erling

Subscription is every quarter e.g. 3 months apart.

Lol ok, maybe you were just fighting for survival after all  :D  Sorry I couldn't mount more of a challenge towards the end, but with the two cut track warnings looming over my head, and increasingly erratic handling on worn tyres, I had to err on the side of caution...  :sweatdrop:

Cheers,
Erling

Enjoyed this race, was pleased with my setup for the Tipo 33 and had great fun trying to keep up with Erling, but latter part of race he opened gap up to 6 secs and no way could i close it, great track choice and cars Tony.

Grats to Goldtop on win
Grats to Podium